A movie by Fyodor Bondarchuk, the son of the famous Russian film director Sergey Bondarchuk. Science fiction:
Year 2157. Earth is a paradise: there are no wars, no terrorism, no illnesses. Everybody is beautiful, strong, kind and quite naive. A guy called Maxim crashes his spaceship and lands on a planed wich is inhabited by people as we are now - greedy, selfish, in love with war, full of hatred. (When I wrote "we", I didn't mean you or me, but the mankind in general.) The society is completely under control - there is a system of towers which emit such radiation that renders a person unable to think for himself, unable to analyse, makes a person believe in everything said on TV, written in newspapers etc. In short, the people of that planet are nothing more than instruments in the hands of the elite. The elite says: kill, they kill. The elite says: be elated, they are elated. Well, you get the idea. And this guy Maxim is absolutely shocked, so he makes it his mission to turn the system upside down.
I went to see that movie with a certain scepticism, because I don't think much of contemporary Russian cinema. And sure enough, it was nowhere near the old russian movies. The actors were mediocre, all the shooting and fighting - a bit exaggerated. However, the film is based on a very good novel.
And I started thinking - the novel was written in Soviet times. There was a horrible censorship. Were the censors so stupid they didn't see that this novel was refering exactly to those times? That the situation the author described was exactly what was happening in the USSR?
I guess I will have to remain contemplating these questions on my own. Or, if you have an answer, pray tell.
Come to think of it, the situation in the world is still like that. The film exaggerates a lot, of course, but the basic idea - that of people being manipulated with - is still obviously and painfully true.
I do not recommend this film to anyone. I recommend to think.
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